ROME, ITALY.- Associazione Culturale Sala 1 presents Videozoom, Dot, Dor, Dot….Unresolved States, on view through March 30, 2007. This overview, entitled Videozoom, is a carefully-chosen selection of 12 Spanish video artists, lasting approximately one and a half hours. The exhibition curator is David Barro, a modern art lecturer in Oporto University and an expert in the realities of Spanish video art. The display consists of a looped projection of the works on show. In order to trace the history of Spanish video art, it is necessary to go back to a series of pioneering experiences which took place in the seventies, as seen through a group of artists who created their pieces outside of Spain, such as Antoni Muntadas, Francesc Torres and Antoni Miralda. The total incompatibility between dictatorship and the avant-garde meant that these experiences did not make themselves immediately shown. A decade later, the eighties saw the appearance of a new generation of artists, linked to the world of television, who were characterised by a certain euphoria towards the possibilities on offer from this medium. Further down the line, with the arrival of the nineties, the deconstruction of individual social identities became the line to follow, almost always based on a critical attitude towards specific historical aspects or gender problems. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19638